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Task Forces: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Barrett & Greene

We contacted Patrick Orecki, director of State Studies at the Citizen Budget Commission to see what he had to say about it and here’s what he told us “We certainly think the task force is a good step. But all too many have been the governmental equivalent of treading water, exhausting time and resources while moving no place forward.

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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

San Antonio launched an initiative called SASpeakUp in 2015 to gather better input on the city’s budget and its services. Although the city held public meetings for that purpose, city officials noticed that the same people were attending all of them. Reviewing and commenting on the city budget. Building on Early Success.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. This is adapted in part from a Public Budgeting & Finance journal article by Michelle L. Michelle L.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.

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Meet the New Featured Contributors

GovLoop

Read on to meet the writers who will contribute two articles each month until July. You can begin reading their articles here.) Ben Marglin is a Senior Vice President with Karsun Solutions and has 25 years of experience in public sector management and technology consulting. Follow him on Twitter @GIS_Advocate. Favorite

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

The following new suggestions of books, reports, articles and presentations about performance management come from David Ammons, Maria Aristigueta, Marc Holzer, Michael Jacobson, Andrew Kleine, and Aaron P. Office of Management and Budget, with a longtime commitment to improve government performance. Manoharan.